People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
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No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Though time changes people, it does not alter the image we have kept of them.
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The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.
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The literary figure who looms largest in False Papers ... perfected a language ... and a vision that gave memory an introspection and aesthetic scope and magnitude no author had conferred on either before. He allowed intimacy itself to become an art form.
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I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.
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